Personal Demons Lisa Desrochers Quotes & Sayings

Off-limits or not, she was beautiful. The type of beautiful he could fall for. — Dawn Altieri

There's no crying in baseball and no love in Hell. It's just the rules. You could say it's against our religion, more or less. — Lisa Desrochers

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'. — Tracy Chevalier

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part. — Joe Lando

I try to pretend his shoulder touching mine isn't causing totally unrelated parts of me to tingle. — Lisa Desrochers

By the effectiveness of redemption, not by impressive speech, nor by wooing and persuading, but only by the sheer unaided power of God. — Oswald Chambers

And I start to say that I'm not lying now, but I am, so that would be a lie. — Lisa Desrochers

Jackson," he mused. "Not a name either one of you was born to."
Lizzie answered, "No. But beyond a certain point, names become accessories. We swap them out as needed, for the sake of peace. You understand?"
"I understand. Though I disagree. Names aren't hats to change a look, or a suit to be swapped at a whim. Words mean things."
"Then we must agree to disagree. — Cherie Priest

She's fiery for sure. I like a little fire. Makes me feel at home. — Lisa Desrochers

What is it?"
"Well, how it works is you take the box out of my hand and open it," I say with a grin. — Lisa Desrochers

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement. — Susan L. Taylor

In life we do not attract what we want, we attract who we are. — Moffat Machingura

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Today, what's normal is being redefined: from vaginal birth to surgical birth; from 'My water broke,' to 'Let's break your water;' from 'It's time' to 'It's time for the induction.' As medical anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd writes, 'in the early twenty-first century, we do not know what normal birth is.' Most practicing obstetricians have never witnessed an unplugged birth that wasn't an accident. Women are even beginning to deny normal birth to themselves: if 'normal' means being induced, immobilized by wires and tubes, sped up with drugs, all the while knowing that there's a good chance of surgery, well, might as well just cut to the chase, so to speak. 'Just give me a cesarean,' some are saying. And who can blame them? They want to avoid what they think of as normal birth. — Jennifer Block

I walk up right behind Frannie, where she's sitting near the door, in time to hear her say, "You know what, Tay? Go to Hell," and I smile, because I think it's cute that she's inviting her friends along. — Lisa Desrochers

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. — Laurell K. Hamilton

She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn't there a box showing a terrified teen? — Natalie Corbett Sampson

A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that. — Sugar Ray Leonard